Do Androids Dream of Origami Unicorns?

Swiss artist Matthieu Cherubini was kind enough to share some his thoughts and process behind the social bot rep.licants.

rep.licants.org is a service allowing users to install an artificial intelligence (bot) on their Facebook and/or Twitter account. From keywords, content analysis and activity analysis, the bot attempts to simulate the activity of the user, to improve it by feeding his account and to create new contacts with other users.